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> Do you have some special way of telling your DNS server that your TTL for
> news.mei.com is differrent than the TTL for ftp..mei.com, or the MX
> record for mei.com??

Yes and it's called RTFM.  ;-)

You can specify an optional TTL on a per record basis.

{name}	{ttl}	addr-class	A	address

news	60	IN	A	169.207.30.21

One of the least used features I've seen in BIND.

... JG